buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth
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Material intensity
the expenditure in specific terms (per unit of production) of material resources (basic and auxiliary materials, fuel, energy, and depreciation of fixed assets) needed for production.; "Within the national economy, in order to eliminate double counting, the consumption of materials must be calculated by the final product."
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(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics.the expenditure in specific terms (per unit of production) of material resources (basic and auxiliary materials, fuel, energy, and dep…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics.a forceful consequence; a strong effect; "the book had an important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception.(economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Audiences and reception, General economics.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics.(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception, General economics.a forceful consequence; a strong effect; "the book had an important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability, Audiences and reception.(economics) the lack of any incentive to guard against a risk when you are protected against it (as by insurance); "insurance companie…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, General economics.an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscriber…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability.an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscriber…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability.an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscriber…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability.an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscriber…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Media and communication, Sustainability.a periodically repeated sequence of events; "a cycle of reprisal and retaliation"
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Sustainability.act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency";…
Used in the same subject area: Economics, Environmental science, Sustainability.an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscriber…
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transport of a substance (as a protein or drug) across a cell membrane against the concentration gradient; requires an expenditure of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.energy derived from sources that do not use up natural resources or harm the environment
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.A unit of energy used to measure food energy
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.a gradual depletion of energy or resources; "a drain on resources"; "a drain of young talent by emigration"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimete…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expenditure, specific, terms, unit, production.
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